Market Data Engineer, Investment Banking recruitment

Primary Responsibilities:

- Accountable for the quality, timeliness, efficiency, and effectiveness of all activities/ deliverables
- Define project plans, timelines, and key project milestones
- Perform project management activities where necessary, including requirements gathering, budgeting, resource planning and cost management for projects, etc.
- Identify needs for cross-region/ function cooperation in response to business requirements and liaise with regional and global engineering to achieve goals, resolve issues, and enforce global standards and reusable approaches
- Attend regular meetings with Engineering and Operate teams (local and global) to coordinate activities, identify efficiencies, resolve issues, etc.
- Accountable for the communication of complex technical issues/ proposals to other cross-regional engineers and oversee the coordination of any changes to configurations/ architectures to achieve global models
- Escalate issues to management team via Regional Engineering Lead

- Perform Level 3 support for all market data products including communication with users, problem logging, ownership, tracking and escalation, and incident reporting
- Act as escalation point for the operations group where necessary
- Ensure that sufficient 'Transition To Operate' has been performed in conjunction with Operate team for any engineered solutions
- Work with the Operate team during implementation and rollout of new services, upgrades, products and configurations, as appropriate

- Conduct research and development activities for new generation technologies and products (e.g., direct feed, distribution platforms, etc.) and provide documented findings
- Provide input and direction in the development of MDS strategies, architectures, and migration plans for new application and infrastructure deployments, maintain documentation (e.g., test certification documents, white papers)

- Perform functional analysis, evaluation testing, certification, integration, and packaging of market data products
- Plan, manage and implement pilot deployments, upgrades, and the transition to new applications while achieving standardized and optimized configurations, and conform to client's operational support model
- Plan, design, build, and implement market data infrastructures/ platforms (for lab, development and production environments) and retire them as necessary
- Ensure market data infrastructures/ platforms are built with core technologies; if non-core technologies used, educate team on technology to avoid key man dependencies
- Review designs and specifications of Support and Engineering teams (functional and technical) for quality, content and adherence to best practices/ standards as defined by Engineering team
- Develop strategic plans for the infrastructure capacity in coordination with the client as needed; perform proactive infrastructure capacity management and update the plans accordingly

- Develop knowledge of client-specific applications dependent on market data (through the use of Permit to Operate etc)
- Provide application architecture support, including technical expertise and troubleshooting, and consultancy as needed
- Develop, evaluate, test, integrate, package, and support Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for market data products

- Ensure that all vendors are providing necessary technical support and act as the primary technical contact for advanced technical issues/ engineering activities
- Participate (and facilitate meetings) with high priority vendors at least twice annually to discuss current, planned and/or new products and services, and prepare market data vendor roadmap reports
- Evaluate third party software products and tools when required
- Observe industry trends by attending market data vendor and client forums, and monitor industry publications

- Adherence to operational and technical standards, best practices, processes and procedures (problem/change/release/request/procurement management; incident/service/time reporting)
- Identify and implement areas for improvement within operational and technical processes/ implementations and ensure maintenance of related documentation on a continuous basis
- Work cross-functionally and geographically to ensure that overall goals are met and assisting in the definition of global standards and reusable approaches
- Develop new approaches and processes, which contribute both to step-change improvements in current area, and to business growth/ efficiency in wider organization
- Identify financial value creation opportunities to determine the most cost-effective and efficient methods to address opportunities and manage services
- Build and maintain relationships with key subject matter experts/groups related to Trading Technology to ensure latest offerings and expertise are shared

- Identify and realize new work opportunities by avoiding out of scope work to both add value and increase savings for the firm

- Provide input to weekly Engineering reports, including engineering activities, projects and resource utilization and submit as necessary
- Ensure all ad hoc and periodic activity and project reports are completed and distributed

Skills

People/Knowledge
People

Knowledge

Reuters Product Suite (Advanced)
- RMDS Infrastructure components
- Tibco Rendezvous
- Data Routing
- Contributions
- 3000Xtra (XDE, PPP)
- MDS API, RFA, SFC
- Entitlements (DACS, FITS)
- RDF-D

High Frequency/Low Latency Trading (Advanced)
Wombat, MamaCache, SuperBook/SuperTrade, FireFly, LDMA, 3rd Party/Exchange/Vendor Offerings e.g. ActiveFinancial

Monitoring (Advanced)
Client Vantage, TIPOFF,Corvil

Technical Skills - Distributed Infrastructure:

Bloomberg (Advanced) - Data Distributions/Contributions API
Location Specific Products - Quick, AMSUS, ESAS (JP), IRESS (AUS), Japan Bond Trading (JBT), Infocast, ETNET (HK)
Messaging: Reuters Messaging JPMIM

Operating Systems - LINUX/Solaris (Advanced), Wintel (Intermediate), Windows 7 (Client-Server) (Intermediate)
Network Technologies - IP (TCP/UDP/MCAST) (Advanced), Switch and routing topologies (Advanced), JPMC network standards
Hardware - Intel (Advanced) Sun (Intermediate)
Programming Languages - Perl (Advanced), Shell (Advanced), C, C++ (Intermediate), Java/ Java Script (Intermediate), VB, VBA, .Net (Intermediate), SQL (Intermediate)

General Technical Skills